Author Archive: Mike Brooks

In 1998 we were treated to two big disaster movies, both involving a comet heading for Earth. Now many people took great joy in poking fun at the ridiculous Michael Bay entry Armageddon, and I would be the first to…Read more

Three legendary heroes get me to the theatre every time no matter how good or bad the reviews are, and those characters would be Robin Hood, Tarzan, and Zorro. Now it was way back in 1998 when Martin Campbell brought…Read more

First off this film does not star Val Kilmer and Christian Slater, despite what the ads may imply, they possibly worked a couple of days, cashed their cheques, and then took off as fast as they could to the nearest…Read more

I was kind of hoping this film would be about Jane Fonda going on a killing spree or maybe Susanne Summers knocking people off with her killer thighs, but this unfortunately is not the case; instead we’re treated to over…Read more

This film is what you get when you have two very talented actors in service of a really bad script. Director Wes Craven starts the movie in a quite promising way, giving us time get to know our two leads…Read more

When it comes to horror movies the werewolf has always been treated like the vampires ugly stepsister. Where the vampire are often portrayed as a suave, mysterious, and charismatic creatures of the night, the werewolf is usually just a slobbering…Read more

The Last Legion follows in the footsteps of Antoine Fuqua’s King Arthur in that it gives us Roman origins for the Arthurian stories, and sure there are historians who believe that Arthur may have been a Roman soldier, and who…Read more

Director Uwe “I’m the only genius in the industry” Boll makes another glorious attempt at translating a video game to the big screen and, to no surprise, he again makes a large steaming pile of cinematic dung.